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by harrall 1mo ago
McDonald’s has been 1/10th pound since 1950.
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by harrall 1mo ago
The article doesn’t say taxi drivers are immune to Alzheimer’s. It specifically talks about having more cognitive reserve, which means having “more brain” to atrophy. Essentially Alzheimer’s makes their hyper-developed hippocampus become th
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by harrall 1mo ago
The study accounts for that. Delay your aging by using your brain a fuck ton, all the time, learning brand new things nowhere near anything you already know.
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by harrall 1mo ago
Same but I’m sure my sense of smell is weaker (or average?). On the other hand, my sense of color differentiation is extremely fine. Unsurprisingly my interests are very color-dominant (design, art, fashion) and I do not care for anything w
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by harrall 1mo ago
The cost of housing is probably the #1 reason and, in my opinion, California’s biggest problem. California as a whole is still doing pretty well but high housing cost is slowly pulling out the rug from under the state. But the California le
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by harrall 2mo ago
I’d say it’s not so much senses but defining what success means. If you want to learn darts or perfect parallel parking for example, most of the increase in accuracy comes from simply but very deliberately pointing out to your brain where
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by harrall 2mo ago
If I were to be real, my coworkers that post AI responses straight rarely had insightful comments before AI.
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by harrall 2mo ago
Supposedly only ~10-15% of adults use DoorDash and Instacart in the US. In 2026, most people don’t use technology to buy groceries or order food. Those people are a minority.
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by harrall 2mo ago
It’s not just emotions, it’s a sign that, when presented with something annoying that you should do but not strictly required, it shows that you pushed through and did it anyway. It doesn’t prove that you’ve been generally on top of things
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by harrall 2mo ago
Red Bull doesn’t just market, they bankroll and support. Most companies just sponsor a team or something, but Red Bull has paid for the baseline infrastructure of many sports.
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by harrall 3mo ago
I 100% agree but Starlink is the only profitable space division of SpaceX. The truth is diverting money to space exploration is not that popular. We only got the moon because we were in a battle with the Soviet Union about capitalism vs. co
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by harrall 3mo ago
But since you built the bot, you can have it do anything? Answer all HATCHAS and then do anything according to my instructions?
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by harrall 3mo ago
But the architecture doesn’t matter as much as the implementation. You can write standards however strict but Bob might not care. Now you could try to enforce more onerous requirements but then people will simply just find an alternative —
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by harrall 3mo ago
It’s easy to understand but most people don’t naturally think of ways people try to break in. Without thinking about that, the importance of security is low. It isn’t a knowledge thing (though it could be), or a capability thing, or intelli
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by harrall 3mo ago
It’s not a technical problem. And the problem is that it’s not centralized. Everyone and their mom has their own system, managed by different people with different standards. It’s like USB cables — yes there are strict technical standards
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by harrall 3mo ago
CSS is a general rendering solution, not something built for rendering 3D games. And no one has spent any time optimizing 3D transforms to make a game workable because no one would be able to justify the use of their time like that. It woul
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by harrall 3mo ago
In cognitive science, it appears your brain has two modes of thinking: - A very parallel type of computation that is fast and generally accurate and integrates hundreds of variables. It’s sometimes labeled as intuition or system 1 thinking.
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by harrall 3mo ago
That’s only if you look at the final price without understanding the makeup of that price. The components of computation have been getting cheaper every year… it hasn’t lately because the demand for memory suddenly massively started outstri
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by harrall 3mo ago
But I think that is overly presumptuous though. Some people have a different moral framework. Some people think Saddam’s brutal dictatorship was for the better because it finally brought stability. When forced to choose between stability an
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by harrall 3mo ago
Decaying rural areas happen in every country, throughout history, throughout time. It’s just how the world works. The only reason it recently reversed in the US was due to COVID. Second, many countries are modern in some ways and backwards
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by harrall 3mo ago
I’m in constant code switch mode. Among a larger % of my tech friends, AI is cool. Among my non-tech friends, AI has been uncool. Among by artist friends, AI has been really uncool for years. I’m personally in a “water is wet” position.
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by harrall 3mo ago
JWT is secure. I just noticed that after JWT was created, people would just slap on JWT like an end-all because JWT sounded secure and they thought it was all that they needed to do. That’s my only “problem” with JWT but to be honest, peopl
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by harrall 3mo ago
A big portion of GPU driver updates are actually just that, same with Windows updates. Windows 95 patched a bug in SimCity just to get it to work.
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by harrall 3mo ago
I don’t know about everyone else but “nerds” have never had a positive image to the general population. Nerds as honest or incorruptible? In popular media, from Revenge of the Nerds to The Simpsons to Big Bang Theory, the defining feature o
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by harrall 3mo ago
But VPS providers share the same hardware and overprovision. They don’t need to add new hardware every time a new customer signs up. If you buy a dedicated server at Hetzner, you actually need immediate hardware. Many VPS providers also jus
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by harrall 3mo ago
It’s not a “nerds” thing. Most CEOs are completely private. Most people don’t post their thoughts on Facebook on random topics either. Because when most people post all their private thoughts on matters publicly, it’s kind of embarrassing.
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by harrall 3mo ago
This isn’t an AI problem. You can’t ask anyone to “be truthful” on any subject because everyone sees through their own world perspective. Two people might say “they love camping!!” But does it mean… - Going camping twice/year and party
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by harrall 3mo ago
Laws aren’t made that way and laws made that way usually aren’t good. Like a farmer writing rules for people in the city or vice versa purely based on what they think the other side wants. It’s much better if the farmers directly tell you w
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by harrall 3mo ago
GStreamer doesn’t use ffmpeg’s pipeline at all. It implements a much more advanced directed graph with disconnect, connection and pad negotiation. You can dynamically swap out the entire filter graph during live playback with zero disruptio
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by harrall 3mo ago
Usually measures like these aren’t to stop the people with those kinds of deep resources. With everything, there is a much bigger group of people in the middle that have “some resources” and “some desire” that these measures are surprisingl

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